Industrial policy report likely to echo Culliton

THE Enterprise Strategy Group report on Irish economic development for the next decade, due to be released today, is expected to pick up where the Industrial Policy Review Group’s 1992 Culliton Report left off, according to analysts.

The 1992 report stressed the need for this economy to grasp the emerging technologies of the day and highlighted the need for a far greater focus on research and development (R&D).

It recommended the State sector (which included the Trade Board at the time) and IDA Ireland be streamlined to give far greater focus to those issues.